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À Sainte-Hélène, territoire britannique perdu dans l'Atlantique Sud, c'est la consternation. Le consul qui administre l'enclave française de Longwood, où est mort Napoléon, a disparu. Comment peut-on se volatiliser sur une île reliée à l'Afrique du Sud par un avion chaque semaine et où tout le monde se connaît? C'est ce qu'Aurel va être chargé de découvrir. Il va vite comprendre que représenter la France à Sainte-Hélène n'est pas de tout repos. Car Napoléon rend fou. Son souvenir déchaîne encore des passions violentes.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Noah Wallace est un homme usé, l'ombre du brillant profileur qu'il était jusqu'à ce qu'un accident lui enlève à la fois sa femme et sa carrière. Mais une carte postale trouvée sur le lieu d'un crime atroce au Canada l'implique directement et le ramène à une série de meurtres commis cinq ans plus tôt. Dans le même temps, à New York, la journaliste-blogueuse Sophie Lavallée enquête sur un reporter disparu dans les années soixante-dix. Et si les deux affaires étaient liées par le même sombre secret ?

Als die junge Hamburger Nachlasspflegerin Friedelinde Engel zu dem Haus einer Verstorbenen geschickt wird, um das Erbe zu verwalten, scheint es ein Tag wie jeder andere. Doch dann entdeckt sie im Keller die Leiche eines Mannes. Während Hauptkommissar Nicolas Sander bei seinen Ermittlungen im Dunkeln tappt, führt Friedelindes Suche nach den Erben der Toten sie weit zurück in die Vergangenheit. Bald schon müssen Friedelinde und Sander widerwillig zusammenarbeiten, um die wahren Schuldigen zu finden.

Housekeeper Phyllida Bright is quite in her element at Mallowan Hall, the charming English manor that she keeps in tip-top shape. By contrast, the bustling metropolis of London, where her famed employer Agatha Christie has temporarily relocated, leaves Phyllida a bit out of her depth. Not only must she grapple with a limited staff, but Phyllida also has to rein in a temperamental French cook who has the looks of Hercule Poirot, but none of the charm.

Yarrow Glen’s favorite cheese shop, Curds & Whey, gets to be a part of the social event of the season: Summer Harrington’s wedding. Cheesemonger Willa Bauer is going all out for the wedding shower’s cheese bar. But the eagle-eyed Harrington family is proving to be a pain in her asiago. A last-minute tasting ends in disaster when one of Willa’s potential beaus, Roman, gets in a fight with the groom. Then the shower arrives, and while there’s anything but love in the air, there is plenty of cheese. Oh, and Roman… again. The day officially ends in disaster.

Travel writer Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with him. At Machu Picchu, they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient stone staircase. Just before the woman dies, she tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. When the local police investigate, the forensic evidence they find doesn't match what Lily knows.

The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets. In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.

Renaissance Venice is a furnace of ideas and ambition. Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary colour. Yet artist Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumour of a mysterious, other-worldly new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the colour and secure his name in history. Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man's wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant's favour.

When a restless Clive begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he and Henrietta are sent to investigate Madame Pavlovsky, a spiritualist holding séances in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town and suspected of robbing her wealthy clients. What seems an open-and-shut matter becomes more complicated when Henrietta begins to believe the woman's strange ramblings. Meanwhile, Elsie turns to her sister and Clive for help. She and her budding love, Gunther, are desperate to find Liesel Klinkhammer, a missing German immigrant and mother of Anna, the little girl in Gunther's care.

When Isabel Gallagher is found murdered on the floor of her baby’s nursery by her mother, it’s a grueling case for Detective Lottie Parker. Isabel’s pajamas have been ripped, her throat cut and an old-fashioned razor blade placed in her hand. As Lottie looks at the round blue eyes and perfect chubby cheeks of Isabel’s baby daughter, she can’t understand who would want to hurt this innocent family.

Warren Botts is a disillusioned PhD, taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene. As the small community slowly turns against him, an anonymous narrator, a person of extreme intelligence and emotional detachment, offers insight into events past and present. As the tension builds, we gain an intimate understanding of the power of secrets, illusions, and memories.

In Luca D’Andrea’s atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years. New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot...

La pioggia di fine estate è implacabile e lava via ogni traccia: ecco perché stavolta la scena del crimine è un enigma indecifrabile. Una sola cosa è chiara: chiunque abbia ucciso la donna, ancora non identificata, l'ha fatto con la cura meticolosa di un chirurgo, usando i propri affilati strumenti per mettere in scena una morte. Perché la morte è uno spettacolo. Lo sa bene, Enrico Mancini. Lui non è un commissario come gli altri. Lui sa nascondere perfettamente i suoi dolori, le sue fragilità. Si è specializzato a Quantico, lui, in crimini seriali. È un duro.

Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a new girlfriend. Helene Hilditch - formerly known as Howlin' Hellbitch - of all-girl punk outfit Blue Tits is a mean guitarist, and someone is trying to kill her. With a rare pressing of their first album to find, the Vinyl Detecive and Nevada are soon called into to help, but this time the question is, who isn't a suspect?  

The longest night in Nikolai Crowe’s life begins when he’s framed for murdering his ex-girlfriend, Jade Sho. To save himself and clear his name, he must search for the reason behind Jade’s assassination. He’ll have to do so without getting caught by crooked cops, who would rather see him dead than captured. Luckily, Nikolai has help from a human clone, identified as Alpha Replica 3007, who is guiding Nikolai toward something Jade left behind for him.

After a series of strange incidents and the abrupt disappearance of the lead actress, the production of Man O' War is suddenly in jeopardy. Is the movie suffering a stroke of bad luck? Or is it something more sinister?

"Elegant, gripping, and intricate, The Shadow Lily is a mystery the way P.D. James wrote mysteries: with depth and real humanity. I loved spending time with Detective Hanna Duncker on an island off the coast of Sweden---Oland is as chilling and atmospheric as Ann Cleeves's Shetland." —Flynn...

It's been over a year and Hanna has tried to move beyond the betrayal and violent murder of her husband. Alex, who helped bring the killer to justice, is becoming more than a friend. Then, his ex-wife comes back to town with a shocking secret and all of Hanna's trust issues come racing back. When Alex's father is charged with the brutal death of a rival shrimp boat captain and Alex digs deeper into the crime, he finds himself in the crosshairs of dangerous killers.

Toni Dusi grew up knowing everyone’s business and everyone knowing hers, because in Moonstone Cove, you can’t pass a restaurant, farm, or winery that doesn’t have at least one Dusi involved. Despite that, Toni has managed to carve out a private niche for herself. She has a car shop she loves, a country cottage all to herself, and has carefully avoided any long-term romantic commitments.